ELEGANT  EXTRACTS 


FROM 

REBEL  WRITERS. 

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Published  by  th9  Union  Republican  Congressional  Committee,  Washington,  D,  C. 


FEACE-DEMOCP.AT  HATRED  OF  SOLDIERS.  » 

“If  I  could  have  my  way  I  would  place  ! 
Jeff.  Davis  in  Congress,  where  he  richly  be¬ 
longs.  Then  I  would  go  to  Concord,  take 
all  the  miserably  battle  flags  from  the  State 
House,  and  make  a  bonfire  of  them  in  the 
State  House  yard.  [Great  applause.] 
Then  I  would  go  all  through  the  North 
and  destroy  all  the  monuments  and  grave¬ 
stones  erected  to  the  memory  of  soldiers. 
In  short,  I  would  put  out  of  sight  every¬ 
thing  which  reminds  us  that  we  ever  had 
a  war  with  our  Southern  brethren. 

'T  do  not  know  that  I  would  hang  one- 
'egged  and  one-armed  soldiers,  but  I  would 
pray  to  God  to  get  them  out  of  the  way  as 
soon  as  possible." — Henry  Clay  Dean ,  in 
a  speech  at  Manchester,  N.  II.,  February, 
1868. 

.HEDGE  MILLER  OX  WAR  DEMOCRATS  AXD  SAUS¬ 
AGE. 

-  There  is  no  difference  between  a  War 
Democrat  and  an  Abolitionist.  They  are 
both  links  of  the  same  sausage,  made  from 
she  same  dog.” — Judge  Miller  in  the  Na¬ 
tional  Democratic  Convention  of  1864, 
Fiich  nominated  McClellan. 

OFFICIAL  REPORT  OF  THE  BUTCHER  FORREST, 

DELEGATE  TO  THE  X.  Y.  DEMOCRATIC  CON¬ 
TENTION  OF  ISO?. 

(I  desire  to  acknowledge  the  prompt 
and  energetic  action  of  Brigadier  General 
Chalmers,  commanding  the  forces  around 
Tort  Pillow.  His  faithful  execution  of  all 
movements  necessary  to  the  successful  ac¬ 
complishment  of  the  objects  of  the  expe¬ 
dition  entitles  him  to  special  mention. 
He  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  conduct, 
of  the  officers  and  men  of  his  command  for 
their  gallantry  and  courage  in  assaulting 
and  carrying  the  enemy's  works  without  the 
assistance  of  artillery  or  bayonets.”— Ex¬ 
tract  from  Gen.  N.  B.  Forrest's  Report  of 
the  Fort  Pillow  massacre.  R.  R.  S.  p.  601. 


SEYMOUR'S  SPEECH  TO  THE  CHILDREN  MURDER 
j  ERS  AND  ORPHAN  ASYLUM  BURNERS  IN  NEW 

YORK  CITY,  JULY,  1863. 

“  My  Friends  :  I  have  come  down  here 
from  the  quiet  of  the  country  to  see  what 
was  the  difficulty,  to  learn  what  all  this 
trouble  was  concerning  the  draft.  Let  me 
assure  you  that  I  am  your  friend.  [Up¬ 
roarious  cheering.]  You  have  been  my 
friends — [cries  df  ‘Yes,’  ‘Yes,’  ‘That’s 
so.’  ‘We  are,  and  will  be  again’] — and 
now  I  assure  you,  my  fellow-citizens,  that 
I  am  here  to  show  you  a  test  of  my  friend¬ 
ship.  [Cheers.]  I  wisn  to  inform  you 

THAT  I  HAVE  SENT  MY  ADJUTANT  GENERAL 

to  Washington  to  confer  with  the  au¬ 
thorities  THERE,  AND  TO  HAVE  THIS  DRAFT 
SUSPENDED  AND  STOPPED.  [VociferOUS 

cheers.]  I  ask  you  as  good  citizens  to 
wait  for  his  return,  and  I  assure  you  that 
I  will  do  all  that  I  can  to  see  that  there  is 
no  inequality  and  no  wrong  done  to  any 
one.  I  wish  you  to  take  good  care  of  all 
property  as  good  citizens,  and  see  that 
every  person  is  safe.  The  safe  keeping  of 
property  and  persons  rests  with  you,  and  I 
charge  you  to  disturb  neither.  It  is  your 
duty  to  maintain  the  good  order  of  the  city, 
and  I  know  you  will  do  it.  I  wish  you 
now  to  separate  as  good  citizens,  and  yon 
can  assemble  again  wherever  you  wish  to 
do  so.  I  ask  you  to  leave  all  to  me  now 
and  I  will  see  to  your  rights.  Wait  until 
my  Adjutant  returns  from  Washington  and 
you  shall  be  satisfied.  Listen  to  me  and 
see  that  there  is  no  harm  done  to  either 
persons  or  property,  but  retire  peaceably.” 

DEMOCRATS  AFRAID  OF  UNION  SOLDIERS. 

In  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors’  Convention, 
which  met  at  New  York  on  the  7th  of 
July,  1868. 

“General  McQuade,  of  New  York,  moved 
that  the  Secretary  be  instructed,  in  making 
up  the  record  of  the  Convention,  to  omit 


all  military  titles  of  tlie  delegates,  so  that 
all  might  appear  there  simply  as  soldiers. 

“Private  Hildreth,  of  Illinois,  opposed 
the  motion,  on  the  ground  that  the 
Radicals  would  use  such  action  by  the 
Convention  as  going  to  show  that  the  Con¬ 
servative  soldiers  are  afraid  to  let  it  he 
known  that  officers  took  part  in  the  pro¬ 
ceedings.  At  his  request  Gen.  McQuade 
withdrew  his  resolution.” 

A  COPPERHEAD  OX  THE  WAR. 

Sanford  E.  Church,  one  of  the  candi¬ 
dates  voted  for  by  the  Democratic  Conven¬ 
tion  that  nominated  Seymour  and  Blair,  in 
a  speech  during  the  McClellan  campaign 
paid: 

“It  is  an  unlawful  and  unconstitutional 
war,  it  is  a  wicked  war,  it  is  a  crime  against 
God  and  humanity.  They  have  no  more 
right  to  call  upon  the  white  men  of  the 
North  or  the  treasury  of  the  North  to  fight 
such  battles,  any  more  than  they  have  a 
right,  without  cause,  to  make  war  upon 
Brazil  and  Cuba  because  the  institutions  of 
those  countries  do  not  please  their  Puritani¬ 
cal  notions.” 

THE  DEMOCRATIC  PLATFORM. 

Washington,  June  30,  18GS. 

Colonel  James  0.  Broadhead: 

Dear  Colonel:  In  reply  to  your  inquir¬ 
ies  I  beg  leave  to  say  that  I  leave  to  you  to 
determine,  on  consultation  with  my  friends 
from  Missouri,  whether  my  name  shall  be 
presented  to  the  Democratic  Convention, 
and  to  submit  the  following,  as  what  I  con¬ 
sider  the  real  and  only  issue  in  this  contest: 

“The  reconstruction  policy  of  the  Radi¬ 
cals  will  be  complete  before  the  next  elec¬ 
tion;  the  States  so  long  excluded  will  have 
been  admitted;  negro  suffrage  established 
and  the  carpet-baggers  installed  in  their 
seats  in  both  branches  of  Congress.  There 
is  no  possibility  of  changing  the  political 
character  of  the  Senate,  even  if  the  Demo¬ 
crats  should  elect  their  President  and  ma¬ 
jority  of  the  popular  branch  of  Congress. 
We  cannot,  therefore,  undo  the  Radical 
plan  of  reconstruction  by  Congressional  ac¬ 
tion;  the  Senate  will  continue  a  bar  to  its 
repeal.  Must  we  submit  to  it?  IIow  can 
it  be  overthrown  ?  It  can  only  be  over¬ 
thrown  by  the  authority  of  the  Executive, 
who  is  sworn  in  to  maintain  the  Constitu¬ 
tion,  and  who  will  fail  to  do  his  duty  if  he  ' 
allows  the  Constitution  to  perish  under  a  | 
series  of  Congressional  enactments  which  1 
are  in  palpable  violation  of  its  fundamental 
principles. 


If  the  President  elected  by  the  Demo¬ 
cracy  enforces  or  permits  others  to  enforce 
these  reconstruction  acts,  the  Radicals,  by 
the  accession  of  twenty  spurious  Senators 
and  fifty  Representatives,  will  control  both 
branches  of  Congress,  and  his  Administra¬ 
tion  will  be  as  powerless  as  the  present  one 
of  Mr.  Johnson. 

There  is  but  one  way  to  restore  the  Gov¬ 
ernment  and  the  Constitution,  and  that  is 
for  the  President  elect  to  declare  these 
acts  null  and  void,  compel  the  army  to 
undo  its  usurpations  at  the  South,  disperse 
the  carpet-bag  State  governments,  allow  the 
white  people  to  reorganize  their  own  gov¬ 
ernments,  and  elect  Senators  and  Repre¬ 
sentatives.  The  House  of  Representatives 
will  contain  a  majority  of  Democrats  from 
the  North,  and  they  will  admit  the  Repre¬ 
sentatives  elected  by  the  white  people  of 
the  South,  and  with  the  co-operation  of  the 
President  it  will  not  be  difficult  to  compel 
the  Senate  to  submit  once  more  to  the  obli¬ 
gations  of  the  Constitution.  It  will  not 
be  able  to  withstand  the  public  judgment, 
if  distinctly  invoked  and  clearly  expressed 
on  this  fundamental  issue,  and  it  is  the 
sure  way  to  avoid  all  future  strife  to  put 
the  issue  plainly  to  the  country. 

I  repeat  that  this  is  the  real  and  only 
question  which  we  should  allow  to  control 
us  :  Shall  wo  submit  to  the  usurpaftons  by 
which  the  Government  has  been  over¬ 
thrown,  or  shall  we  exert  ourselves  for  its 
full  and  complete  restoration  ?  It  is  idle 
to  talk  of  bonds,  greenbacks,  gold,  the 
public  faith,  and  the  public  credit.  What 
can  a  Democratic  President  do  in  regard  to 
any  of  these,  with  a  Congress  in  both 
branches  controlled  by  the  carpet-bagger3 
and  their  allies  ?  He  will  be  powerless  to 
stop  the  supplies  by  wrhich  idle  negroes  are 
organized  into  political  club3 — by  which  an 
army  is  maintained  to  protect  these  vaga¬ 
bonds  in  their  outrages  upon  the  ballot. 
These,  and  things  like  these,  eat  up  the 
revenue  and  resources  of  the  Government 
and  destroy  its  credit — make  the  difference 
between  gold  ana  greenbacks.  We  must 
restore  the  Constitution  before  we  can  re¬ 
store  the  finances,  and  to  do  this  we  must 
have  a  President  who  will  execute  the  will 
•of  the  people  by  trampling  into  dust  the 
usurpation  of  Congress,  known  as  the  re¬ 
construction  acts.  I  wish  to  stand  before 
!  the  Convention  upon  this  issue,  but  it  is 
j  one  which  embraces  everything  else  that  is 
*  of  value  in  its  large  and  comprehensive  re¬ 
sults.  It  is  the  one  thing  that  includes  all 
that  is  worth  a  contest,  and  without  it 


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there  is  nothing  that  gives  dignity,  honor, 
or  value  to  the  struggle. 

Your  friend,  Frank  P.  Blair. 

THE  FEROCITY  OF  A  REBEL  PARSON. 

“  It  is  now  victory  or  unconditional  sub¬ 
mission  ;  submission,  not  to  the  Conserva¬ 
tive  and  Christian  people  of  the  North,  but 
to  a  party  of  infidel  fanatics,  with  an  army 
of  needy  and  greedy  soldiers  at  their  backs. 
Who  shall  be  able  to  restrain  them  in  their 
hour  of  victory  ?  When  that  moment  ap¬ 
proaches,  when  the  danger  seems  to  be 
over  and  the  spoils  are  ready  to  be  divided, 
every  outlaw  will  rush  to  fill  their  ranks, 
every  adventurer  will  rush  to  swell  their 
legions,  and  they  will  sweep  down  upon 
the  South  like  the  hosts  of  Attila.  And 
shall  you  find  in  defeat  that  mercy  you  did 
not  find  in  victory  ?  You  may  slumber 
now  ;  you  may  lie  upon  your  beds  of  ease 
and  dream  that,  when  it  is  all  over,  you 
will  be  welcomed  back  to  all  the  privi¬ 
leges  and  immunities  of  greasy  citizens, 
but  how  terrible  will  be  your  disappoint¬ 
ment  !  You  will  have  an  ignoble  home, 
overrun  by  hordes  of  insolent  slaves  and 
rapacious  soldiers.  You  will  wear  the 
badge  of  a  conquered  race,  Pariahs  among 
your  fellow-creatures,  yourselves  degraded, 
your  dedicate  wives  and  gentle  children 
thrust  down  to  menial  service,  insulted, 
perhaps  dishonored.  Think  you  that  these 
victorious  hordes,  made  up  in  the  large 
part  of  the  sweepings  of  Europe,  will  leave 
you  anything?  As  well  might  the  lamb 
expect  mercy  from  the  wolf.” — Bishop  El- 
Hot’s  sermon,  preached  at  Savannah,  Ga., 
November  1863.  R.  R.  8,  p.  5. 

REBEL  RELIGION. 

“  There  can  be  no  question  that  Southern 
troops  are  unsurpassed  in  valor  and  patri¬ 
otism  by  any  body  of  soldiers  in  the  world. 
They  have  everything  to  make  them  so. 
Your  enemies  strive  for  conquest  and 
plunder.  Your  cause  is  the  cause  of  right, 
of  justice,  of  great  principles.  Your  ene¬ 
mies  are  grasping  at  shadows,  pursuing 
phantoms,  urged  on  by  the  wildest  fanati¬ 
cism.” — Petersburg,  Va.,  Evan.  Tract  So¬ 
ciety,  Tract  No.  214.  R.  R.  8,  p.  26. 

‘‘tout”  BEAUREGARD  WANTS  WAR  TO  THE 

KNIFE. 

‘‘We  will  yet  have  to  come  to  proclaim¬ 
ing  this  war  ‘  a  war  to  the  knife/  when  no 
quarter  will  be  asked  or  granted.  I  be¬ 
lieve  it  is  the  Only  thing  which  will  prevent 
recruiting  at  the  North.” — General  Beau¬ 


regard’s  letter  to  General  Martin ,  August 
3,  1862,  R.  R.  8,  p.  36. 

.JUDGE  WOODWARD  FOR  REVOLUTION. 

“If  I  were  the  President’s  counselor, 
which  I  am  not,  I  would  advise  him,  if  you 
prefer  articles  of  impeachment,  to  demur 
both  to  your  jurisdiction  and*  that  of  the 
Senate,  and  to  issue  a  proclamation  giving 
you  and  all  the  world  notice  that  while  he 
held  himself  impeachable  for  misdemean¬ 
ors  in  office  before  the  constitutional  tri¬ 
bunal,  he  never  would  subject  the  office  he 
holds  in  trust  for  the  people  to  the  irregu¬ 
lar,  unconstitutional,  fragmentary  bodies 
who  proposed  to  strip  him  of  it.  Such 
a  proclamation,  with  the  army  and  navy  in 
hand  to  sustain  it,  would  meet  a  popular 
response  that  would  make  an  end  of  im¬ 
peachment  and  impeachers.” — Speech  of 
Judge  G.  W.  Woodward  in  the  House  of 
Representatives,  February  24,  1868. 

FERNANDO  WOOD’S  PATRIOTISM. 

“No  more  victims  for  slaughter- pens — 
not  a  man — not  a  dollar.” — Fernando 
Wood,  a,t  Syracuse,  August  IT,  1864. 

THE  RADICAL  KILLERS. 

“Let  clubs  be  composed  of  Democrats  and 
as  ready  to  fight  as  to  vote;  let  them  be 
drilled  in  the  manual  of  arms;  be  as  conver¬ 
sant  with  the  service  of  military  tactics  as 
with  Democratic  principles.  They  may  be 
required  to  display  that  knowledge,  and  if 

NIGGER  OR  RADICAL  KILLING  SHOULD  BE  IN 
ORDER,  THEY  WILL  EE  AS  READY  FOR  THAT 
BUSINESS  AS  TO  LISTEN  TO  THE  INAUGURAL  OF 
A  DEMOCRATIC  PRESIDENT  ON  THE  4TH  OF 

march  1869.” — Brick  Pomeroy  in  the  La 
Crosse  Democrat ,  Dec.,  1867. 

SOCIAL  AFFECTIONS. 

‘‘Southern  brethern !  If  I  thought  I  had 
a  twenty-fifth  cousin  who  was  as  white- 
livered  as  you  are,  I  would  kill  him  and  set 
him  up  in  my  barn-yard  to  make  sheep  own 
their  lambs.” — Gen.  Jenkins  to  a  Peace 
Democrat  at  Hagerstown,  July,  1863. 

BLOODHOUNDS  FOR  UNION  MEN. 

“We,  the  undersigned,  will  pay  five 
dollars  per  pair  for  fifty  pairs  of  well-bred 
hounds,  and  fifty  dollars  for  one  pair  of 
thorough-bred  bloodhounds  that  will  take 
the  track  of  a  man.  The  purpose  for  which 
these  dogs  are  wanted  is  to  chase  the  infer¬ 
nal,  cowardly  Lincoln  bush-whackers  of  Easi 
Tennessee  and  Kentucky  to  their  dens  and 
capture  them.  The  said  hounds  must  be 
delivered  al?  Cant.  Ilaraner’s  livery  stable 
by  the  10th  of  December  nest,  where  a 


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mistering  officer  will  be  present  to  muster 
md  inspect  them.  J 

“F.  N.  McNairy, 

“II.  H.  Harris, 

“Camp  Crinfort,  Campbell  Co.,  Tenn.” 
STashville  Courier ,  November,  1861. 

BLACK  FLAG. 

•‘We  are  fdr  displaying  the  black  flag. 
We  should  ask  no  quarter  at  the  hand  of 
lie  Yankee  invaders,  and  our  motto  should 
>e  ■  an  entire  extermination  of  every  one 
rho  has  set  foot  on  our  sacred  soil.  Let 
ihat  flag,  then,  float  over  every  hill-top  and 
mlley  throughout  the  whole  South,  and  as 
die  breeze  fans  its  folds,  let  it  tell  to  the 
Hessian  scoundrels  the  welcome  they  will 
have  on  Southern  soil — death,  death  to 
each,  one  and  all.” — Lynchburg  Republi¬ 
can ,  January ,  1862.  Ii.  R.  4.  p.  10. 

RETURN  TO  AVERY. 

“  The  time  must  come  when  the  party  in 
power  in  Washington  will  be  overthrown, 
and  the  Southern  States  again  entitled  to 
full  and  exclusive  control  over  their  respec¬ 
tive  populations,  which  will  enable  them  to 
derive  some  system  of  legislation  by  which 
the  negroes  could  be  made  to  discharge 
the  incumbent  duties  of  a  laboring  class. 
A  hope  much  encouraged  by  the  apparent 
tone  of  Democrats  in  the  North.” — Letter 
from  James  M.  Mason  to  Graham,  pub¬ 
lished  in  Richmond  papers  in  1866. 

NATIONAL  ROBBERY  THE  TRUE  DEMOCRATIC 
DOCTRINE. 

“  It  is  Repudiation !  and  to  this  the 
Democratic  party  is  already  pledged,  and 
no  man  can,  after  this  year,  be  elected  to 
Congress  or  to  the  Presidency  who  is  not 
pledged  for  Repudiation.  This  is  true  Dem¬ 
ocratic  doctrine,  and  you  who  do  not  endorse 
it  will  be  ground  to  powder  under  the  wheel 
of  Repudiation.” — Brick  Pomeroy,  in  the 
La  Crosse  Democrat  September,  1867. 

THE  “LOST  CAUSE”  TO  TRIUMPH. 

“Our  fallen  heroes.  1  do  not  believe 
they  have  fallen  in  vain.  The  cause  for 
which  Jackson  and  Stuart  fell  cannot  be  in 
vain,  but  in  some  form  will  yet  triumph.  I 
propose  the  ‘Lost  Cause,’  for  which  our 
aeroes  fell.” — Wade  Hampton  at  the 
Alumni  supper  at  Washington  College, 
June  18,  1868. 

REBEL  CHIVALRY. 

“No  drill  is  needed  for  a  hunter  to  get 
behind  a  tree  and  hit  his  mark,  and  if  every 
man  will  shoot  only  when  he  is  sure  to  kill 


an  enemy  he  will  do  good  service.  If  the 
men  have  no  shot  guns,  let  them  take  axes 
and  spades  and  obstruct  the  roads  and  rivers, 
under  the  direction  of  their  officers.  Be  of 
good  heart,  and  let  our  righteous  cause 
make  us  strong.” — Gen.  A.  G.  Blanchards 
order  of  Feb.  19,  1862.  R.  4,  p.  52. 

STATE  RIGHTS  FOR  REBELS. 

“  I  do  claim  to  be  one  of  the  1  true  men 
of  Virginia.’  During  the  war  I  have  tried 
to  do.  my  duty  in  seeking  the  real  interests 
of  Virginia,  and  since  the  surrender  I  have 
not  bowed  the  knee  to  Baal.  I  never  mean 
to  acknowledge  higher  allegiance  than  I 
owe  to  my  State.  ’  Gen.  James  A.  Walker 
at  the  Alumni  supper  at  Washington  Col¬ 
lege,  June  18,  1868. 

THE  DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE  TRAM¬ 
PLED  UNDER  FOOT. 

“  The  difficulty  and  the  remedy — it  is  not 
in  the^  election  of  Republican  Presidents 
No.  Not  in  the  non-exemption  of  the  Fu¬ 
gitive  Slave  bill.  No.  But  it  lies  back  of 
all  these.  It  is  found  in  that  Atheistic 
Black  Republican  doctrine  of  the  Dec¬ 
laration  of  Independence!  Until  that 
is  trampled  under  foot  there  can  EE  NO 
peaaX” — Address  of  D.  Smyth ,  of  South 
Carolina. 

southern  “despise”  generally. 

“Words  are  too  weak,  too  feeble  to  con¬ 
vey  even  the  slightest  idea  of  feeling  which 
our  refined,  elegant,  high-toned,  chivalrous 
people  feel  or  look  upon  such  an  offcast,  de¬ 
generate  set.  It  would  be  some  solace  to 
us  when  we  lose  our  husbands,  fathers, 
sons,  and  friends,  to  know  they  were  fight¬ 
ing  an  enemy  civilized  or  refined  to  any  de¬ 
gree.  But,  oh !  the  thought  is  killing,  is 
too  painful  to  see  our  men,  tho  choicest, 
most  refined  specimens  of  God’s  work,  de¬ 
stroyed  and  even  forced  to  take  up  arms 
against  the  offscourings,  outcast  dregs  of 
creation  ;  for  every  man  the  North  loses  is 
a  blessing,  a  God-send  to  humanity  and  so¬ 
ciety.  Yet,  I  pray  to  live  just  to  raise  mv 
son  and  daughter  to  despise  the  whole  race, 
and  our  boy  must  shoot  them  down  as  he 
would  the  most  ferocious  wild  beast  when¬ 
ever  they  cross  his  path.  So  extreme  is  my 
disgust,  that  if  I  once  thought  my  children 
would  ever  countenance,  not  a  Yankee,  but 
a  Northerner,  for  they  are  the  same,  I  could 
and  would  plunge  a  dagger  into  their  heart-* 
and  laugh  to  see  their  life’s  blood  oozing 
They  must  notice  them  only  to  murder  anb 
poison.” — Letter  from  Mississippi,  R.  R 
7,  p.  57.  1 


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